President Reuven Rivlin granted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu two more weeks Monday morning to form a new government coalition after negotiations with different t parties have not produced a positive result. Rivlin really had no other choice. He would like to see a national unity government with the Likud and the Zionist Union, the euphemism […]

Former chief Rome Rabbi Elio Toaff died on Sunday the age of 99, two weeks before what was supposed to be his 100th birthday. He served as chief rabbi of the city for 51 years until 2002 after having served as the chief rabbi of Venice. Rabbi Toaf once prayed with Pope John Paul II, […]

Alfred Taubman, who helped shopping in the United States by developing malls, died of a heart attack while at home on Friday, He was 91. Taubman was known for philanthropy, especially in his native Michigan, where was a large contributor to the Detroit Institute of Arts. “Al Taubman changed the way America shops. But his […]

Officials at Commack, N.Y. High School are investigating a confirmed report that two students showed up in school with red t-shirts bearing black swastikas and the word “Auschwitz” printed in large letter. New York City radio station 1010 WINS said the shirts also carried a slogan ins smaller letters stating “hit the showers.”

Sirens were heard across the country at 10 a.m., when people were asked to stand, or stop their cars, in memory of 6 million Jews slaughtered by the Nazis. Many Hareidim, but not all of them, do not stand, and every year the anti-Hareidi media post a picture of Hareidim walking while the siren blares. […]

Anti-Semitic vandals scrawled a swastika on a wall at Northwestern University and also included Afro-Americans in their hate messages by posting derogatory slogans. University police removed the offensive drawing and graffiti and are investigating. “This news is especially hurtful coming only days before Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, on which we remember the millions of […]